Baramati, April 21 (IANS) The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) working president and Member of Parliament, Supriya Sule, on Tuesday broke down while remembering her brother and former Deputy Chief Minister, the late Ajit Pawar. Addressing the crowd in support of Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar at the concluding campaign rally for the by-poll scheduled for April 23, Sule expressed the family’s deep personal pain over the loss. She said she had come to request everyone t…
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New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) Rajya Sabha Chairman C. P. Radhakrishnan on Thursday administered the oath to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Parth Pawar as a newly elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Maharashtra at Parliament House. Parth Pawar, 35, took the oath in English in the presence of the Leader of the House J. P. Nadda and Congress Chief Whip Jairam Ramesh and several other leaders. He is the son of NCP leader Ajit Pawar, who passed away in a plane crash earlier this year.Prior to…
Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) NCP(SP) Legislator Rohit Pawar on Thursday met the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President Harshwardhan Sapkal, urging him to withdraw the party nominee Akash More for an unopposed election of NCP candidate and state Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar in the April 23 Baramati by-election. Rohit Pawar’s plea is important as Thursday is the last date of withdrawal of nomination at 3 p.m. for the Baramati by-election in which 47 contestants have filed their nomina…
Mumbai, April 7 (IANS) The political atmosphere in Maharashtra has intensified following the filing of nomination papers by Sunetra Pawar for the Baramati bypoll. The decision by Congress to field a candidate against her has sparked a war of words between the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and its allies, with Shiv Sena(UBT) MP Sanjay Raut firmly backing Congress’ right to contest.Responding to NCP MP Parth Pawar’s claim that Congress’ decision to contest marks the “beginning of its downfa…
Baramati, April 7 (IANS) NCP (SP) working president and MP Supriya Sule on Tuesday launched a firm defence of the Congress party’s historical legacy, issuing a sharp rebuttal to the remarks by NCP (Ajit Pawar faction) leader Parth Pawar that the party’s decision to contest the Baramati by-election marked the beginning of its “downfall”.Her comments came after Parth Pawar, the newly elected Rajya Sabha MP and son of late former deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, claimed that Congress’s d…
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Nationalist Congress Party-SP president Sharad Pawar on Monday said that the Pawar family decided not to contest the Baramati by-election out of grief over the untimely demise of Ajit Pawar, but refrained from criticising the Congress for choosing to contest the bypoll.Speaking to reporters in Delhi after taking oath as a Rajya Sabha member, Pawar noted that while the Congress party has decided to field a candidate in Baramati, it is within its right to do so.When asked…
Baramati, April 6 (IANS) In a sharp rebuke to the Congress party, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP and former Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s son Parth Pawar on Monday expressed strong displeasure over its recent political manoeuvres in Maharashtra, especially its move to contest the Baramati bypoll, warning that the “mature party” may face a significant backlash from the public. He characterised the Congress party’s recent actions as a sign of decline. “It is extremely wrong …
Baramati, April 6 (IANS) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP national president Sunetra Pawar on Monday filed her nomination for the Baramati Assembly by-election, describing the contest as a mission to fulfil the unfinished dreams of her late husband and veteran leader Ajit Pawar.The seat fell vacant following the tragic demise of Ajit Pawar in a plane crash earlier this year.Accompanied by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, her sons Parth and Jay and…
Mumbai, April 2 (IANS) A month after Sunetra Pawar took over as the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) national president following the death of her husband and former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, her younger son Jay Pawar has now officially entered active politics. Jay Pawar has been appointed to the NCP’s apex committee, though he is yet to be assigned responsibility within the party organisation. Incidentally, Jay’s brother, Parth Pawar, has been elected to the Rajya Sabha and w…
Mumbai, March 31 (IANS) The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) core committee held a marathon meeting on Monday and appealed to party president and Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar to take leadership on board before drafting important letters concerning party policies or taking major decisions on the party’s roadmap. The committee expressed faith in her leadership and decided to work towards consolidation.The trigger for the meeting was Sunetra Pawar’s letter to the Election Commissi…